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Skate, drugs, and rock 'n' roll!"--Kat Von D, LA Ink Forward by Tony Hawk Skateboarder and Jackass star Brandon Novak comes clean about his crazy rise to fame, tailspin into addiction, and other death-defying stunts on the road to recovery... "
Entertaining, shocking, crazy, unimaginable."--Bam Margera With 24 pages of photos Updated with a New Epilogue. . .
But like any great skateboarder, Brandon Novak was always determined to get up again .
The road was hard, and he had some falls.
With the help of his celebrity buddy Bam Margera of Jackass fame, Brandon joined the cast of MTV's Viva La Bam and made an honest reach for sobriety.
This is the story of an addict--a Dreamseller who stopped believing the lies he was selling and started believing in himself.
But it was all a lie.
He pushed the fantasy that everything was okay, that he was going to rehab, getting help, and getting better.
He stole from his family and friends.
Soon the up-and-coming star was living a down-and-out life in a garage, begging for change, and hustling to score his next fix.
Then he got hooked on heroin.
Brandon had it all.
Signing autographs and appearing in films and magazines. with the elite Powell-Peralta team.
Touring the U.
S.
Discovered by skate legends Bucky Lasek and Tony Hawk.
By the time he was fourteen, he was living the dream.
At seven, Brandon was a skateboard prodigy. "
Skate, drugs, and rock 'n' roll!"--Kat Von D, LA Ink Forward by Tony Hawk Skateboarder and Jackass star Brandon Novak comes clean about his crazy rise to fame, tailspin into addiction, and other death-defying stunts on the road to recovery..
